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even before the white house news conference, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell warned again that raising rates on high-income earners will have almost no effect on the deficit. but, he said, there is another way. >> republicans believe that there is a way to get additional revenue. we also believe that additional revenues should be tied to the only thing that will save the country in the long ru and that is reforming entitlements. >> sreenivasan: but the senate's democratic majority leader, harry reid, objected. he said if talking about entitlements means social security, democrats will never agree. >> social security is not part of the problem. that's one of the myths the republicans have tried to create. social security is sound for the next many years. but we want to make sure that in the outer years people are protected also, but it's not going to be part of the budget talks as far as i'm concerned. >> sreeniivasan: congressional leaders meet with the president later this week. wall street took a hit after the president's news conference. stocks fell on worries that the parti
even before the white house news conference, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell warned again that raising rates on high-income earners will have almost no effect on the deficit. but, he said, there is another way. >> republicans believe that there is a way to get additional revenue. we also believe that additional revenues should be tied to the only thing that will save the country in the long ru and that is reforming entitlements. >> sreenivasan: but the senate's democratic...
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i know the president does, but i know senator mcconnell said his number one priority was winning the election. >> it sounds like you're saying the republicans are basically rooting for the economy to fail. >> i didn't say that, senator mcconnell did. senator mcconnell said his number one goal was not to get the economy going again, it was to defeat the president. i hope they're not rooting for it to fail. >> nbc senior political editor mark murray is here, and he joins me now. mark, what an amazing day yesterday. it really felt like the official first cannon kickoff, if you will, for this election. a lot of moving parts, though. when it comes to barack obama admitting that he might not have been a good communicator and mitt romney hitting back on that, who can win that war? >> these are all really tough questions and it's why journalists like to ask them. what's your biggest regret? when you have no regrets at all, you think you're perfect. what president obama basically did was acknowledge i think the shortcomings his supporters have acknowledged, and also his retra retractors when
i know the president does, but i know senator mcconnell said his number one priority was winning the election. >> it sounds like you're saying the republicans are basically rooting for the economy to fail. >> i didn't say that, senator mcconnell did. senator mcconnell said his number one goal was not to get the economy going again, it was to defeat the president. i hope they're not rooting for it to fail. >> nbc senior political editor mark murray is here, and he joins me now....
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grievance lack of coordination of interest in the issue amongst governor romney, john boehner, mitch mcconnell, and the other leaders in the republican party including, of course, rnc chairman, reince. >> we need a united front. the administration lied because they didn't follow the narrative that bin laden's dead and gm is alive. bin laden is dead, great thing, but al-qaeda is alive and well and its affiliates killing u.s. ambassador and the three americans. where is the outrage, the legitimate outrage on the part of the republicans to come out to get to the baht dome of this? i think the story is going to have legs because it gets worse every day, and we should be dodging kerry now at every move saying what are you doing as a member of the senate in order to get to the bottom of this? you signed a letter. now, mr. kerry, what are you doing about itings and the president has to be held to account at the debates. even though this is a domestic debate wednesday, romney should question him on it. lou: your thoughts? you get the last word. >> i've been in des moines, iowa there, and people there
grievance lack of coordination of interest in the issue amongst governor romney, john boehner, mitch mcconnell, and the other leaders in the republican party including, of course, rnc chairman, reince. >> we need a united front. the administration lied because they didn't follow the narrative that bin laden's dead and gm is alive. bin laden is dead, great thing, but al-qaeda is alive and well and its affiliates killing u.s. ambassador and the three americans. where is the outrage, the...
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the minority leader, mcconnell, has said he believes he only needs 50 votes because of a procedural move not senate, but, regardless, you are going to need to retake the senate at minimum to have any chance of repealing it and they are a long way from that. >>neil: now, you are from pennsylvania and i want your thought on what is going on in scranton where the mayor is effectively not declaring bankruptcy, but acted like the city is bankrupt and that all public workers, all 380 plus in scan continue, including himself, paid the minimum wage, and they are raising holy hell. what do you make of what is going on there? >>guest: the district i represent is way on the other side of the state on the ohio border and i heard a little bit of the story that you were talking about before i came on but i don't know enough about the specifics of what is happening in that municipality. >>neil: do you think there is a wildfire going on, congressman, that, maybe, it goes back do what happened in wisconsin and what happened in san jose and san diego, and, now, with los angeles, generally liberal union fr
the minority leader, mcconnell, has said he believes he only needs 50 votes because of a procedural move not senate, but, regardless, you are going to need to retake the senate at minimum to have any chance of repealing it and they are a long way from that. >>neil: now, you are from pennsylvania and i want your thought on what is going on in scranton where the mayor is effectively not declaring bankruptcy, but acted like the city is bankrupt and that all public workers, all 380 plus in...
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. >> mitch mcconnell went on to call move a joke. democrats will be adopted as their position later this afternoon. it is another chilly day in the nation's capital. not as much sunshine today. >> we do not have the psychological sunshine giving us the boost that we in in terms of temperatures. the senators are similar to what we had yesterday. here is a perfect -- temperatures are similar to what we had yesterday. here is fairfax. i will show you satellite images. strasbourg, 39. 49 in landover 47 in la plata. 44 in gainesville. mostly cloudy. we could see some sign later this afternoon. the average height is 48. we will be -- high is 48. we will be near 50. " temperatures. denver, 49. atlanta, 52. i will have. >> the ticket with developing story in upper marlboro. a student accused killing her roommate, and that case could get to the courtroom today. brad bell has the details. >> some dramatic moments in court moments ago. in a bit of a surprise, alexis simpson, the accused killer, took the stand in her own defense, saying that the
. >> mitch mcconnell went on to call move a joke. democrats will be adopted as their position later this afternoon. it is another chilly day in the nation's capital. not as much sunshine today. >> we do not have the psychological sunshine giving us the boost that we in in terms of temperatures. the senators are similar to what we had yesterday. here is a perfect -- temperatures are similar to what we had yesterday. here is fairfax. i will show you satellite images. strasbourg, 39....
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mcconnell: i say --. mr. mcconnell: , i know the parliamentarian disagrees with his few but let's assume we do have a budget and by judge ask the majority leader why we haven't passed a single appropriation bill. mr. reid: that also is an easy question to answer. the republicans in the house, this is a bicameral legislature, why have reneged on the law passed last august that set numbers. their appropriation bills have artificially lowered the numbers and in effect violated the law that's in effect here in this congress. as a result of that, senator inouye has marked up his subcommittee bills and we can't -- and i would also say, madam president, the house was not serious about what they do. energy and water which used to be one of the most important subcommittees, most popular, i should say in addition to being important, subcommittees in this body, i was fortunate to serve on that subcommittee for more than a quarter of a century under a great -- under great leaders, domenici, bennett johnson, domenici and
mcconnell: i say --. mr. mcconnell: , i know the parliamentarian disagrees with his few but let's assume we do have a budget and by judge ask the majority leader why we haven't passed a single appropriation bill. mr. reid: that also is an easy question to answer. the republicans in the house, this is a bicameral legislature, why have reneged on the law passed last august that set numbers. their appropriation bills have artificially lowered the numbers and in effect violated the law that's in...
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we all heard by now republican leader in the senate mitch mcconnell laughed at it. there you see some of the provisions there. $600 billion in savings. some of it from medicare, another 50 billion in spending and new spending on infrastructure and stimulus spending. that's something that republicans aren't going to want to go to. the two sides are far apart. here we are on december 1st, the clock is ticking. if they can't come to a deal over the course of december, delay all the christmas vacations and then the nation does go over the fival cliff and some people are thinking about the unthinkable now, craig. yes, it all boils down to that tax rate and the white house is playing hardball. they are insisting that the votes are there. they are, in some cases, playing to the democratic base that wanted to see this all along in past negotiations, craig. remember two years ago when we had the same debate about extending the president's tax cuts the president caved and no one expects this to happen this time and yet the votes aren't there in the house of representatives, e
we all heard by now republican leader in the senate mitch mcconnell laughed at it. there you see some of the provisions there. $600 billion in savings. some of it from medicare, another 50 billion in spending and new spending on infrastructure and stimulus spending. that's something that republicans aren't going to want to go to. the two sides are far apart. here we are on december 1st, the clock is ticking. if they can't come to a deal over the course of december, delay all the christmas...
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mcconnell hasn't just been an ideologue who won't move for change with the times. he house basically mirror where the republican party has been. george will describe him as thoroughly marinated in the institutions of the senate. he is a creature of the senate and the only other position that i thought he might be well suited for is secretary of state at some point but unlike a lot of senators she's never really wanted to be president and that's been very much of a factor in his success in the republican senate leadership. he's always been a creature of that chamber and has never really thought he was a president when he looked in the mirror in the morning. i worked on the book for about five years, interviewed countless people that no senator mcconnell had a lot of interviews with him. i had met him before but we were not by any means close acquaintances and i probably would not have done the but if he had been unwilling to cooperate. the book is not an official biography, but the senator did cooperate with me. sometimes i would share with him something i was think
mcconnell hasn't just been an ideologue who won't move for change with the times. he house basically mirror where the republican party has been. george will describe him as thoroughly marinated in the institutions of the senate. he is a creature of the senate and the only other position that i thought he might be well suited for is secretary of state at some point but unlike a lot of senators she's never really wanted to be president and that's been very much of a factor in his success in the...
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fascinating with regard to the second panel was the degree of radicalism shown by my good friend mike mcconnell who i think is probably not usually described as a radical. but i think that judge professor michael did touch on some absolutely crucial issues that are central to our particular topic. the degree of his radicalism perhaps can be kpempllyfied to the extent not only he, but a number of skugss replicated the great debate in the 1960's in china over the issue of red. that is to what degree the state particularly if it is a modern state and last night i do think even richard epstein, you know, waved the flg of surrender with regard to the existence of a very significant administrative state that will engage in a wide degree of rule making and then as several of the speakers have articulated very carefully the debate is well how should the rules be made and what is the relative tradeoff between looking to land this kind of experts or to looking at the demos, the democratic critique of expert administration, or to adapt a little bit to the chinese analogy. it's not the demos at large, but
fascinating with regard to the second panel was the degree of radicalism shown by my good friend mike mcconnell who i think is probably not usually described as a radical. but i think that judge professor michael did touch on some absolutely crucial issues that are central to our particular topic. the degree of his radicalism perhaps can be kpempllyfied to the extent not only he, but a number of skugss replicated the great debate in the 1960's in china over the issue of red. that is to what...
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it came from its mcconnell. on top of that, the problem -- lou: using the president is not an original thinker? >> well, my point is that it was a bipartisan idea, a lot more bipartisan. lou: you don't suppose that was a one of proposition on the part of senator mcconnell. >> it may well have been, but the further point isis, i agree with a lot of what he said. the problem is going to be not just the fiscal cliff, but also if it goes down the way and was talking about e're going to have a middle-class taxes go up in sequestration as well. disco cliff? >> if congress does nothing every family in america will see their income taxes automatically go up on january 1st. every family. everybody here will see taxes go up. i'm assuming that doesn't sound too good to you. it's sort of like a lump of coal you get for christmas. the scrooge christmas. lou: most people don't even know where the real tax hikes will be coming from. we will fix that in tonight's "chalk talk." massive defense budget cuts not even part of the di
it came from its mcconnell. on top of that, the problem -- lou: using the president is not an original thinker? >> well, my point is that it was a bipartisan idea, a lot more bipartisan. lou: you don't suppose that was a one of proposition on the part of senator mcconnell. >> it may well have been, but the further point isis, i agree with a lot of what he said. the problem is going to be not just the fiscal cliff, but also if it goes down the way and was talking about e're going to...
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>> mitch mcconnell is taking this slightly exaggerated view here, at the least. the proposed bill, the bill that was filibustered in the senate would impact democratic groups as well as republican groups. certainly, there are more republican groups this year since citizens united that have benefited from large donations, multimillion-dollar donations. studies have shown republican c4 groups have a raised democratic ones. but the bill would impact both equally. >> and the bill has been defeated? >> it has been blocked at this stage, right. i don't think there's any comparison for the nixon enemies list. i think what drives the bill's sponsor -- >> fascinating that mcconnell is raising it about nixon critics and he is a longtime advocate for greater transparency in campaign finance a gestation and rolls. in fact, that is one of his major talking points over the years, that we do not need more regulations but greater transparency. here he is on the other side and said, well, if it is a politically-driven effort. which i think is an exaggerated one. i think republica
>> mitch mcconnell is taking this slightly exaggerated view here, at the least. the proposed bill, the bill that was filibustered in the senate would impact democratic groups as well as republican groups. certainly, there are more republican groups this year since citizens united that have benefited from large donations, multimillion-dollar donations. studies have shown republican c4 groups have a raised democratic ones. but the bill would impact both equally. >> and the bill has...
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>> i guess -- you always ask that question, except to mitch mcconnell. >> excuse me, you, mr. hoyer, mr. clyburn, you're all over 70. is it going to prohibit younger leadership from moving forward. >> so you're suggesting that everybody step aside? >> i'm simply saying, does this -- >> i think that what you will see, and let's, for a moment, honor it as a legitimate question. although it's quite offensive. but you don't realize that, i guess. the fact is, the fact is, is that everything that i have done in my almost decade of leadership is to elect younger and newer people to the congress. in my own personal experience, it was very important for me to elect young women. i came to congress when my youngest child, alexandra, was a senior in high school, practically on her way to college. i knew that my male colleagues had come when they were 30. they had a jump on me, because they didn't have to -- i did what i wanted to do. i was blessed to have that opportunity, to sequentially raise my family and then come to congress. but i wanted women to be here in greater numbers at an ea
>> i guess -- you always ask that question, except to mitch mcconnell. >> excuse me, you, mr. hoyer, mr. clyburn, you're all over 70. is it going to prohibit younger leadership from moving forward. >> so you're suggesting that everybody step aside? >> i'm simply saying, does this -- >> i think that what you will see, and let's, for a moment, honor it as a legitimate question. although it's quite offensive. but you don't realize that, i guess. the fact is, the fact...
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democrats and republicans to fight over everything these days, the associated press notes that mitch mcconnell has for a long time taken a special interest in burma as a senator. he has not held back in praising president obama for taking this big historic trip to that once totally-closed country. president obama on this trip is due to meet with the japanese prime minister. in the midst of those countries fighting over who controls some islands. the midst of a flairup between israel and gaza. we don't know what started the most-recent round of fighting, but we do know a strike killed the top commander of hamas in gaza on wednesday and that was followed by rocket attacks aimed the israel and tel aviv. the attacks appeared to be rapidly escalating including sounds they are preparing for a ground incursion. israeli tanks massing on the border with gaza. amid-all of this in the world, today washington was consumed with two issues. the first was the start of negotiations to head off a deliberate crisis that d.c. created for itself so they could come to a few new deal between the parties and congres
democrats and republicans to fight over everything these days, the associated press notes that mitch mcconnell has for a long time taken a special interest in burma as a senator. he has not held back in praising president obama for taking this big historic trip to that once totally-closed country. president obama on this trip is due to meet with the japanese prime minister. in the midst of those countries fighting over who controls some islands. the midst of a flairup between israel and gaza....
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candidates romy ni -- romney to newt gingrich and senate and house republican leaders, i heard senator mcconnell threaten legislation to take away these benefits, to speaker boehner, to individual republicans in both houses, they're gearing up to repeal one of these benefits, access to birth control. access to birth control. now, i believe women in this country deserve respect. some of them don't want access to birth control. they have a religion that dictates their views and they have every right to make that decision. and others decide that they need to have access to birth control. so the obama administration says to the women of this great nation they believe there ought to be access. but i think it's very important. the institute of medicine said, no exception, they think access to contraception is so important to women's health, they didn't want anyone exception. but the obama administration made an exception for churches, for religious institutions. and under the obama administration's rule, 335,000 religious organizations will not have to offer birth control if they have a conscience rea
candidates romy ni -- romney to newt gingrich and senate and house republican leaders, i heard senator mcconnell threaten legislation to take away these benefits, to speaker boehner, to individual republicans in both houses, they're gearing up to repeal one of these benefits, access to birth control. access to birth control. now, i believe women in this country deserve respect. some of them don't want access to birth control. they have a religion that dictates their views and they have every...
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his only exception is mitch mcconnel will fork up three bucks. ♪ ♪ you and me and the big old tree ♪ ♪ side by side, one, two, three ♪ ♪ count the birds in the big old tree ♪ ♪ la la la [ male announcer ] the inspiring story of how a shipping giant can befriend a forest may seem like the stuff of fairy tales. ♪ ♪ you and me and the big old tree side by side ♪ but if you take away the faces on the trees... take away the pixie dust. take away the singing animals, and the charming outfits. take away the sprites, and the storybook narrator... [ man ] you're left with more electric trucks. more recycled shipping materials... and a growing number of lower emissions planes... which still makes for a pretty enchanted tale. ♪ la la la whoops, forgot one... [ male announcer ] sustainable solutions. fedex. solutions that matter. the two trains and a bus rider. the "i'll sleep when it's done" academic. for 80 years, we've been inspired by you. and we've been honored to walk with you to help you get where you want to be. ♪ because your moment is now. let nothing stand in your
his only exception is mitch mcconnel will fork up three bucks. ♪ ♪ you and me and the big old tree ♪ ♪ side by side, one, two, three ♪ ♪ count the birds in the big old tree ♪ ♪ la la la [ male announcer ] the inspiring story of how a shipping giant can befriend a forest may seem like the stuff of fairy tales. ♪ ♪ you and me and the big old tree side by side ♪ but if you take away the faces on the trees... take away the pixie dust. take away the singing animals, and the...
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mitch mcconnell is a reserved guy, right? even he, though, has a well spring of kind of fundamental conservative belief and principle and experience. he's been there for a while. mitt romney doesn't have the fundamental connection. he wasn't there back in the day. he wasn't there in '94. he wasn't there with reagan. he can talk the talk. but the problem is can he communicate it and connect with people? i don't see him doing that. he can mouth the words and he can get enthusiastic and as we've seen he is adept at turning on a dime shaping his message but it's kind of hard to see him with that crowd. >> if mitch mcconnell can do it mitt romney can. >> he has tried in the past but i think the question a lot of conservatives have, is it in his heart? does he mean it or is he out playing president? i think you'll see that today. >> we'll be right back with this great panel discussion. right now it's trivia time. we asked how many women have held both congressional seats and cabinet posts? the answer is four. secretary of state hil
mitch mcconnell is a reserved guy, right? even he, though, has a well spring of kind of fundamental conservative belief and principle and experience. he's been there for a while. mitt romney doesn't have the fundamental connection. he wasn't there back in the day. he wasn't there in '94. he wasn't there with reagan. he can talk the talk. but the problem is can he communicate it and connect with people? i don't see him doing that. he can mouth the words and he can get enthusiastic and as we've...
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democrats and republicans to fight over everything these days, the associated press notes that mitch mcconnell has for a long time taken a special interest in burma as a senator. he has not held back in praising president obama for taking this big historic trip to that once totally-closed country. president obama on this trip is due to meet with the japanese prime minister. in the midst of those countries fighting over who controls some islands. the midst of a flairup between israel and gaza. we don't know what started the most-recent round of fighting, but we do know a strike killed the top commander of hamas in gaza on wednesday and that was followed by rocket attacks aimed the israel and tel aviv. the attacks appeared to be rapidly escalating including sounds they are preparing for a ground incursion. israeli tanks massing on the border with gaza. amid-all of this in the world, today washington was consumed with two issues. the first was the start of negotiations to head off a deliberate crisis that d.c. created for itself so they could come to a few new deal between the parties and congres
democrats and republicans to fight over everything these days, the associated press notes that mitch mcconnell has for a long time taken a special interest in burma as a senator. he has not held back in praising president obama for taking this big historic trip to that once totally-closed country. president obama on this trip is due to meet with the japanese prime minister. in the midst of those countries fighting over who controls some islands. the midst of a flairup between israel and gaza....
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compassionless conservative delivered by one mitch mcconnell. thanks so much for watching. "hardball" picks things up right now. >>> when is a tax not a tax? let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm michael smerconish. what we have here is a failure to communicate. from the moment the supreme court upheld the individual mandate kauing it a tax, republicans saying aha, see, president obama raised taxes. but today, r mitt romney's chief spokesman told chuck todd no the mandate is not a tax after all. why would he say that? if it is, it means romney raised taxes with his plan in massachusetts. this is why santorum said romney would be the worst to carry the antireform message into the fall. also, we're hearing that chief justice roberts planned to strike down the mandate, but switched his vote. plus, count on seeing the obama campaign keep up their attacks on bain capital. both campaigns admitted the attacks on mitt romney's business experience, they're working and
compassionless conservative delivered by one mitch mcconnell. thanks so much for watching. "hardball" picks things up right now. >>> when is a tax not a tax? let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm michael smerconish. what we have here is a failure to communicate. from the moment the supreme court upheld the individual mandate kauing it a tax, republicans saying aha, see, president obama raised taxes. but today, r mitt romney's chief spokesman told...
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mcconnell added "i don't want the president to fail. i want him to change." in another obama said george w. bush issued more regulations than he has in the same time frame. then attacked the bush administration for too much deregulation. there are also mr. obama's problem with antecedent. obama said he could block out any noise. mr. obama spoke of the inevitability of bumps in the road. today we heard the hapless jay carney explained that the quotes did not mean what the words say. if that sounds familiar, it is. that's what they claim when he said if you have a business, you didn't build that. >> bret: 43 days left. is there time for romney to make something stick? >> perhaps. we had blow up in the middle east. trouble across the muslim world. horrendous crime and terrorist attack in libya. might be enough to shake the standing in a way. but it seems not to stick. you don't expect them to go after obama. but might expect the public to respond to secret schism than the polls indicate in the battleground state particularly so far have. one begins to wonder if
mcconnell added "i don't want the president to fail. i want him to change." in another obama said george w. bush issued more regulations than he has in the same time frame. then attacked the bush administration for too much deregulation. there are also mr. obama's problem with antecedent. obama said he could block out any noise. mr. obama spoke of the inevitability of bumps in the road. today we heard the hapless jay carney explained that the quotes did not mean what the words say. if...
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. >> mitch mcconnell says 13 million people in this country without health insurance is not the issue. but i thought that this was precisely the issue. because unless these people are brought into the system, they're not only miss out on all kind of preventive care, they'll also continue to use a system they do not contribute towards, so it's exactly that and yet mitch mcconnell says it's not the issue. >> again, misinformation. demonizing legislation and i think many have in the even read. if they did, they would also understand that 98% of americans would not be paying a penalty, but more importantly, 30, 40 million, the number keeps going up and down, it's the exact issue of individuals who lay on sick beds an hospitals without opportunity for insurance coverage and when i say they lay on sick beds, they're in emergency rooms because they can't get into hospitals because they have to go right out the door or maybe some of them fall sick right at the door of the emergency room because they're checkinging cards and coverage and i understand hospitals. they've got to survive and those
. >> mitch mcconnell says 13 million people in this country without health insurance is not the issue. but i thought that this was precisely the issue. because unless these people are brought into the system, they're not only miss out on all kind of preventive care, they'll also continue to use a system they do not contribute towards, so it's exactly that and yet mitch mcconnell says it's not the issue. >> again, misinformation. demonizing legislation and i think many have in the...
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mcconnell telling the "wall street journal" that those are the kind of things that would get republicans interested in new revenue. maybe bipartisan. john fund, a columnist for the "national review magazine." good morning. >> good morning. >> jamie: great to have you here this morning. >> thanks. >> jamie: we have less than a month left as we have been talking about went're now in december for the fiscal cliff. what truly is on the table where both democrats and republicans are concerned? do you see anything they agree on? >> we have four weeks to go and so far there is not very much. remember, president obama said in the campaign he favored a balanced approach to getting over the fiscal cliff. balanced normally means about 50/50. 50% spending restraint. 50% revenue enhancement. but the president's proposal is apparently something like 80% tax increases. 20% spending restraint. unspecified. unspecified means it won't ever happen. >> jamie: what do you expect to happen given the fact that speaker boehner says that the white house is not willing to compromise on anything. if you are an ame
mcconnell telling the "wall street journal" that those are the kind of things that would get republicans interested in new revenue. maybe bipartisan. john fund, a columnist for the "national review magazine." good morning. >> good morning. >> jamie: great to have you here this morning. >> thanks. >> jamie: we have less than a month left as we have been talking about went're now in december for the fiscal cliff. what truly is on the table where both...
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>>reporter: senator mcconnell's point is all this uncertainty, we did not know the tax code, we did not know if the defense cuts and other cuts will kick in, all this uncertainty is hurting the economy and it is time to sit down and work this out. >> a russian capsule today linked with the international space station and a nasa astronaut along with a veteran russian astronaut and a japanese astronaut are to work out of the orbiting laboratory until november. they gin the country station residents, another american and two other russians, of course american astronauts now hitch rides with the russians to the international space station since we ran out of money and nasa lost share shuttle program. all the presidential campaigns are not backing down from attacks over business credentials. next, the candidates exchange words over what could be the issue of the 2012 election. wait, i thought that was jobs. >> have to wonder how the search if two missing girls finances -- continues. i'm only in my 60's... i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay al
>>reporter: senator mcconnell's point is all this uncertainty, we did not know the tax code, we did not know if the defense cuts and other cuts will kick in, all this uncertainty is hurting the economy and it is time to sit down and work this out. >> a russian capsule today linked with the international space station and a nasa astronaut along with a veteran russian astronaut and a japanese astronaut are to work out of the orbiting laboratory until november. they gin the country...
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at that time mitch mcconnell was singing a very very different tune. actually advocating the nuclear option while the democrats who are now are advocating it were saying it was a gross abuse of power. and there is no guarantee that the nuclear option would actually work. under majority leader harry reid's tenure the senate has failed to pass a budget over the past three and a half years even though passing a budget only requires a simple majority. vote. shep, back to you. >> shepard: doug mckelway on capitol hill tonight. thanks. integrity counts in the business world and the feds say a lack of integrity just got bp suspended from new government contracts. that's the word now after the company agreed to plead guilty to charges involving its response to the catastrophe in the gulf of mexico. just in case you have forgotten, 11 men died when the deep water horizon oil rig exploded and sank two years ago. that sat off an enormous environmental disaster. today officials with the environmental protection agency barred bp from any new government contracts be
at that time mitch mcconnell was singing a very very different tune. actually advocating the nuclear option while the democrats who are now are advocating it were saying it was a gross abuse of power. and there is no guarantee that the nuclear option would actually work. under majority leader harry reid's tenure the senate has failed to pass a budget over the past three and a half years even though passing a budget only requires a simple majority. vote. shep, back to you. >> shepard: doug...